Neighbourhood Planning Bill

My Lords, I declare my usual interests as this is the first time I have spoken in Grand Committee...

My Lords, I also declare an interest. I have interests listed in the register and I have a pendin...

My Lords, my name is to Amendment 44 and I would certainly have been happy to add it to Amendment...

My Lords, I support the amendments and thank noble Lords for what they have said because, althoug...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on the amendments in this group...

Are those 13,000 homes generated by the conversion of offices?

I believe that this is all permitted development rights conversion to residential.

It would be useful to have a breakdown of the number generated by the conversion of offices.

I suspect that that forms the bulk of them but I shall endeavour to get that information.

P...

I thank the Minister. Before withdrawing the amendment, I would like to raise one or two points w...

I thank the noble Lord for that. In answer to the question, “Do I know Lewisham?”, I have certain...

I thank the noble Lord, and of course he is very welcome to visit my ward in Lewisham any time he...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

15: After Clause 5, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, this amendment, which is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Ha...

My Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken in Committee I draw the Committee’s attention t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardingt...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly to Amendment 15, which my noble friend Lady Bakewell has spoken...

My Lords, I will seek to reassure the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, on both points.

First, if t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I am pleased by his comments and am looking forw...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

16: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Rev...

My Lords, Amendment 16 is about a review of neighbourhood areas and is particularly focused on th...

I apologise for arriving a little late. Trains from the West Country are operating rather badly b...

What the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, said strikes a chord with me. I always represented very urban ...

My Lords, to follow the noble Lord, Lord Horam, I should perhaps start by reassuring him that the...

I was referring to Bromley, which has no Liberal Democrat presence at all.

I know there is a temporary cessation, but give it another year or two.

I strongly support ...

My Lords, I hope the Minister will understand that this is a very important issue. The reasons fo...

My Lords, I have only a few brief remarks to make on this amendment. To go back again to my own w...

My Lords, I thank the many noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this amendment. Bef...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for the positive and constructive way in which he re...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

17: Clause 6, page 5, line 27, at end insert—

“(1CA) The ...

My Lords, I refer again to my interests as a Newcastle city councillor and a vice-president of th...

Moved by

Baroness Andrews

17A: Clause 6, after paragraph (e) insert—

“(f) the e...

My Lords, in the absence of the noble Baronesses, perhaps I can speak to the amendment. This is c...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for tabling Amendment 19, which lies in this group and derives fro...

My Lords, my name is attached to that of the noble Lords, Lord Beecham and Lord Kennedy of Southw...

I would quite like to speak to the other amendments, if I may, and welcome the Minister in the na...

My Lords, I too want to speak in support of Amendment 19, which I welcome enthusiastically for tw...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this group of amendments. Be...

I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 17A.

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to the debate, particularly the noble Baro...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

19: Clause 6, page 5, line 39, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, I gave notice of my intention to oppose Clause 7 standing part of the Bill, which is gr...

My Lords, very often when we discuss a clause not standing part of a Bill, it is an opportunity t...

My Lords, I was a county councillor for 20 years and have been a district councillor for eight ye...

I have some doubts and concerns about these provisions. How does Clause 7 relate to combined auth...

My Lords, I shall be very brief but want to ask the Minister four specific questions about Clause...

Before the Minister responds, on the point raised by my noble friend Lord Beecham about difficult...

I thank noble Lords for the debate on this part of the Bill. I will try to take Clauses 7 and 8 i...

I am comforted that there are no secret agendas for mergers, and I thank the Minister for his ass...

On that specific point, perhaps when the Minister responds he can tell the Committee how the poli...

The Minister kindly answered three of my four questions. The missing answer was on the right of a...

I shall take up those points. In response to my noble friend Lady Cumberlege, this power will be ...

I am happy for the Minister to write to me. Clearly, we need to define what cost recovery is, bec...

That is an entirely fair point. As I said, there is a system to ensure that costs may be recovere...

I was asking for information on the councils that are failing in their duties and so require the ...

I am sure the noble Lord was listening very carefully to what I said. I said that we need backsto...

That makes it a bit clearer: at the moment, there are no councils against which the Government wo...

I must correct that very serious accusation. I was not encouraging people to bring legal action. ...

I was not suggesting that the Minister was encouraging people to bring legal action. But he certa...

My Lords, as a lawyer and somebody who sympathises when somebody has a legitimate compliant, whic...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

21: Clause 11, page 10, line 17, at end insert—